Stories We Pray: Insights into the Inner-Work of Jewish Worship

Every prayer has a story. When the rabbis of the Talmud wanted to explain what prayer means they told the story of the first time a prayer was said. They would root each prayer in the spiritual history of major Jewish figures.

By knowing these stories, we get a sense of what each prayer should mean to us. By speaking of famous moments that were human breakthroughs with God, we get to look at our own relationship with God.

In this book, Joel Lurie Grishaver presents an introduction to almost ...